Monthly Archives: April 2018

PBM KPMG South Africa announced at the weekend the resignation of two of its partners, Sipho Malaba and Dumi Tshuma, who were recently suspended over the VBS Mutual Bank affair. VBS Mutual Bank, the operation that...

SATopShops Global petroleum giant, Shell, and Easigas have been forced into a remarkable relent from an anti-competitive behaviour in South Africa via as a result of a complaint lodged with the Competition Commission by Puregas. The...

PBM Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi leads a spirited performance of a powerful struggle song that goes: iAzania! Soyithatha ngebhazuka! –loosely translating to we shall take our land back with the barrel of a gun. He was about to...

Ujuh Reporter Namibia has dropped the proposal to impose a requirement that businesses operating in the country must allocate 25% ownership towards its natives who were excluded from economic participation during the colonial era. The proposal...

PBM The 2019 round of Gauteng online school application system goes live on Monday, the 16th of April 2018, which requires all parents seeking school for Grade 1 and 8 to engage the online platform. Exceptions...

PBM The Gauteng Department of Education officially opens the 2019 Online Application System for Grade 1 and 8 admissions on Monday, 16 April 2018 at 08:00 am, and close at midnight, 28 May 2018. Parents must...

People with reading and writing disabilities (dyslexia) struggle to find jobs in the legal industry because employers draft advertisements in a way that excludes them. This is one of the key findings of a new study...

PBM ANC Youth League President, Collin Maine, has made startling revelations about his affair with the controversial Gupta family, including that he was taken to Saxonwold by North-West premier Supra Mahumapelo. Speaking at a memorial; service...

Ujuh Reporter MTN and Ecobank have signed a memorundum of understanding (MoU) which promises to create the largest digitalised banking activity on the African continent. The deal leaves one to wonder about the future relations of...

PBM A former apartheid state security agent, Paul Erasmus, has made new and explosive allegations about how South Africa’s pre 1994 state targeted the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela with a propaganda caompaign meant to discredit her name...

PBM Here is a list of recently finalised cases from South Africa’s Competition Commission, including key decisions on mergers and acquisitions, like the Boardriders Inc vs Billabong International Ltd case and other cases involving Pick n Pay...

Ujuh Reporter South Africa’s newly launched Youth Employment Service (YES) comes with a promise to generate significant broad based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) points for participating companies. A company will be able to realise a two...

Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg South African business’s biggest obstacle may not be government corruption, economic radicalism or skills shortages. It may be deep-rooted race and gender biases in the mainstream economy – which are more...

Ujuh Reporter A Malian politician, Moussa Mara, has declared his candidacy for the country’s 2018 presidential elections through a letter sent far and wide that sorts to position him as a unifier in a country troubled...

PBM Adila Chowan’s legal victory against Mark Lamberti and Imperial Holdings leaves Thulani Gcabashe, former chairperson of the Imperial board, in a precarious position. The court judgement implicates Gcabashe for siding with a group of white...

Ujuh Reporter The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has set its sight on the South African branch of global security firm, G4S, after the company served what appears to be a fake black economic empowerment (BEE) deal...

By: Barrister Austin Okeke In the early parts of 1997, a vibrant Nigerian popularly known as Ncha South was brutally murdered in the process of a botched kidnap attempt on him, right in front of his...

Ujuh Reporter South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched the Youth Employment Service (YES), an initiative which sets out to create one million quality work experience opportunities for the country’s youth over the next three years.Its hoped...